The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

2016

Graduate Teaching Excellence – Instructor of Record Award

University-wide recognition as instructor of record of the year

2016 (inducted)

Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence (GrATE) Founding Fellow

As a Founding Fellow I am selected to serve as a mentor to GTA’s, organize programming regarding pedagogy and the GTA experience, and serve as needed in the Graduate School. Founding Fellows worked to create a structure for the GrATE program, the first of its kind in the nation.

2016

Global Perspectives Program

Selected to represent the VT Graduate School on campus visits to Switzerland’s universities and conduct an assessment of institutes of higher education as regional motivators with a team of international graduate students. The report was shared at the Swiss Embassy in Washington DC.

2016

Appalachian Sound Archives Fellow, Berea College

2015

Favorite Faculty Award, Virginia Tech

2015

Undergraduate Research Institute Grant, Virginia Tech

2015

ASPECT Travel Fund

2015

Diversity Scholar, Virginia Tech

2014

ASPECT Travel Fund, $250

Provided Support to present new research at national conferences.

2013

Leadership Bluegrass Graduate (IBMA)

The International Bluegrass Music Association chooses a small cohort each year to attend a 4-day summit of industry leaders in Nashville Tennessee and serve as leaders within the genre.

2012

2011

Anne and Alex Bernhardt Appalachian Music Scholar, Appalachian State University

Anne and Alex Bernhardt Appalachian Music Scholar, Appalachian State University

“Beyond (internal) Colonization, Blame, and Binaries: Working Towards a Relational Economy,” RE: Reflections and Explorations Essays on Politics, Public Policy, and Governance Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan

2016

“Person & Place: Thoughts on the Radical Possibilities of an un-Fixed Polis,” RE: Reflections and Explorations Essays on Politics, Public Policy, and Governance Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan

“What Machine Kills Fascists: A Critical Reflection on the Political Power of Sound in the Trump Era.” Reflections and Explorations (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance). (February 18, 2017).

2016

“Locations of Knowledge Production: Exploring the Collisions of Place-Based Pedagogy in the Global Context,” Global Perspectives Report, published by the VT Grad School: http://futureprof.global/work/gpp-switzerland-2016-manual/locations-of-knowledge-production-exploring-the-collisions-of-place-based-pedagogy-in-the-global-context/

“Hashtag Heartwork: Notes on the Relationship between Place and Identity,” Reflections and Explorations: A Graduate Student Commentary (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance).

“Trade Publications as Folklore as a Political Performance of Place” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, panelist.

2017

“Examining Feminism in Appalachia through Contemporary Issues: A Discussion of Intersections and Place (Roundtable)” Appalachian Studies Association Conference

2016

“Re-historicizing Our Romance with Bill Monroe: The Unfinished Story of Carlton Haney’s and Ralph Rinzler’s Contributions to the Creation of the ‘Father of Bluegrass’” American Folklore Society Conference, panel sponsored by the AFS Music Section (Miami, Florida on October 20th, 2016)

2016

“Higher Education Institutions as Regional Innovators” presentation at the Swiss Embassy, Washington DC (June 16th, 2016) as part of the Global Perspectives Program through Virginia Tech in collaboration with the University of Basel.

2016

“Examining Feminism in Appalachia through Historical Scholarship: A Discussion of Women of the Mountain South.” Appalachian Studies Association, 2016. (roundtable)

2015

“Across Space and Time: Carlton Haney’s Multi-Genre Influence and Vision,” International Association of Country Music Scholarship

2015

“Sick No More: Singing a Musician Home in the New River Valley of Virginia” (co-presented with Betty Fine) Appalachian Studies Association, 2015

“User Generated: Exploring the Bluegrass Nation’s Shift from Front Porches to Politicized Cyberspaces.” The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Music and the Global American South Conference: Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds, 2013

2013

“Form and Function: Understanding Folklore through Technology” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2013

“Protest and Emancipatory Space through Song in Appalachia,” Virginia Tech Women’s Studies Mini-Conference, April 2014

POSTERS

2016

“‘Rule 7: The Only Rule Is Work’: An Unconventional Path to Thriving in Higher Education,” poster, Second Annual Commonwealth Graduate Education Day on November 4, 2016 at the College of William & Mary.

I have developed content for the following courses: Diversity in Appalachia, Intersectionality in Appalachian Literature, Appalachia on Television, Methods in Critical Regionalism, Hip Hop in Appalachia, Religion in Appalachia, Place-Based Problems (STEM focus), and Place-Based Activism.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Serving as the Instructor of Record at Virginia Tech unless noted otherwise.

Educational Committee: worked to co-sponsor a panel with Y’ALL and the Edu Comm regarding classroom practices to combat neoliberalism within higher education. (ASA 2018)

Y’ALL: assisted with music programming (ASA 2018)

2017

Worked with the Graduate School, Learning Design Studio (Library Services) and GrATE to offer eportfolio workshops for incoming GTA’s. This required assisted in the development of a training program for workshop leaders and leading workshops on the use of the portfolio interface, Portfolium. (Approx. 140 graduate students completed this trainings)

Organize and facilitate gatherings, training sessions, and networking events for members. Oversee YALL social media accounts, represent YALL members at conferences and connect members to opportunities throughout the region.

ADVOCACY & ORGANIZING

2017, Fall

Graduate Teaching Assistants Training; spoke with incoming GTA’s about inclusion and diversity practices in the classroom.

Appalachian Identity and Stereotypes, Diversity and Inclusion Training for VT Faculty and Staff (hosted by the VT Office for Diversity and Inclusion)

2017, Summer

Appalachian Identity and Stereotypes, Diversity and Inclusion Training for VT Library Faculty and Staff (hosted by the VT Office for Diversity and Inclusion)

2017, Spring

Appalachian Service Training for Family Counseling Services Psychological Clinicians

2017, Spring

Graduate Teaching Assistants Training; spoke with incoming GTA’s about inclusion and diversity practices in the classroom.

2017, Spring

Organized a Grassroots Training Workshop with Virginia Organizing at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference on March 9th, 2017. The training was led by VO and hosted by Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners (Y’ALL). The goal of the training was to cultivate and recognize the skills needed to facilitate an intergenerational, intersectional cohesive youth movement in the region. (Approximately 60 attendees)

Conscientious Classroom Conversations (hosted by Diversity and Recruitment at the VT Graduate School).

2017 (Fall, Summer)

Eportfolio training pilot program (Portfolium)

Completed training and facilitated training for graduate students to serve as workshop leaders and “early adopters”.

2017

Conflict of Interest and Commitment for Faculty, Staff, and Students (hosted by CITI), required for participation in NIH funded projects, completed

2016-2017

Appalachian Studies Association Conference Planning Committee

2015

Awarded Undergraduate Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, used for Bluegrass Class research and experiential learning ($300)

2015

Completed the professional development course “Awakening the Digital Imagination: New Media Seminar for Virginia Tech Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students” (weekly meetings)

2015

Completed Contemporary Pedagogy training at Virginia Tech

2014

Trained as a Community and Direct-Action Organizer by Virginia Organizing and VTAction. Completed 16 hours of training focused on grassroots strategies and campaigns, community outreach, and garnering commitment from constituencies.

2013

Completed Virginia Tech’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Training

2013

Graduated from the Nashville based “Leadership Bluegrass” Program, a training program meant to “pull together a cross section of people with exhibited or potential leadership qualities into a network of learning and communication”.

Coordinator. “Fifty Years after Fincastle: Celebrating Carlton Haney and the First Multi-day Bluegrass Festival,” an edutainment panel at the International Bluegrass Music Organization’s annual gathering, “Wide Open Bluegrass.” The event featured materials from the Appalachian State University Archives, the International Bluegrass Music Museum, personal collections, and performers Sam Bush, Charlie Cushman, the ETSU Pride Band, and Morehead State University with Raymond McLain, Mark Schatz, Sierra Hull, and Fred Bartenstein.

2015

Virginia Tech LGBTQ+ Oral History Project:

Conducted interviews of the LGBTQ+ community at Virginia Tech. These interviews are now available to the public through the Special Collections website. (specific contributions: Dolly Davis and Howard Friertag)